Hi, Duy Nguyen: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Matthias Urlichs <matthias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What I would like to have, instead, is a version of shallow cloning which > > cuts off not at a pre-determined depth, but at a given branch (or set of > > branches). In other words, given > > > > +-J--K (packaged) > > / / > > +-F--G--H----I (clean) > > / / > > A---B---C---D---E (upstream) > > > > a command "git clone --shallow-until upstream $REPO" (or however that would > > be named) would create a shallow git archive which contains branches > > packaged+clean, with commits FGHIJK. In contrast, with --single-branch and > > --depth 4 I would get CGHIJK, which isn't what I'd want. > > I would imagine a more generic mechanism "git clone > --shallow-rev=<rev> $REPO" where you could pass anything that "git > rev-list" can accept (maybe more restricted, and some verification > required). --shallow-rev could be repeated. So in your case it could > be "git clone --shallow-rev="^A" $REPO". Umm, no. ^E (or ^upstream) would do what I want. Hopefully. ;-) But you're right, that would fit far better into the existing git paradigms. > > As I have not spent too much time with the git sources lately (as in "None > > at all"), some pointers where to start implementing this would be > > appreciated, assuming (a) this has a reasonable chance of landing in git and > > (b) nobody beats me to it. ;-) > > I'd like to see this implemented. You are not the first one > complaining about the (lack of) flexibility of --depth. If you have > time, I may be able to support (I should not take on another topic > given my many ongoing/unfinished topics). Welcome to the club. :-/ Thanks for the pointers. I'll see what I can do (and when). -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html